Federal subsidies for insurance under FEHBP would remain stable at 72 percent, so even if they returned to their former plan, members of Congress would pay the same percentage of their costs that they currently do. They would not get health insurance for free. These days, fewer and fewer people do. In 2001, 34 percent of employers paid for 100 percent of their employees’ premiums. In 2016, Forbes found, that had dropped to only nine percent of employers.
“Since its inception, the Best Companies to Work For list has seen a 74 percent reduction in honorees covering the full cost of their workers’ health insurance,” Forbes reports.
In fact, the rising cost of health insurance and the burden it places on employers is one of the reasons experts say you shouldn’t expect a raise any time soon. Unfortunately, the current repeal-and-replace efforts are not expected to do much to rein in those costs.
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